cycle wrap up

it took me roughly three months to finish a six week cycle.  No huge gains to speak of, but I suppose there was no degradation either.  Did have some small positives.  that's good. finished up strong on Saturday by pulling 490lbs for three reps.  That's a big PR for me.  The last rep was a battle and towards the lockout I think I actually heard a spring shoot outta my back and ricochet off the wall.  Been dang near crippled since.  I knew I was injured when I did it but I also knew the pain wouldn't set in for a while so I went ahead and knocked out the rest of the workout with some heavy hamstring curls and weighted situps.  I skipped monday's workout to give the back a bit more rest.  I've been feeding the injury lots of protein and anti inflammatories.  By the end of today I felt like working out again.  I can live with that kind of recovery time.  Chalk another one up to sobriety.  Speaking of which, I forgot to take my diuretic this morning and my BP was down to 147/66 with at a pulse rate of 86 shortly after my workout.  Not perfect, but much better than the old norm.  This week is deload week, so I'm not too worried about the structure of it.  I did a bunch of close grip bench and experimented with several different rowing and pressing movements using the green bands.  My bis, tris, and ta-tas where fried by the end of it.  No serious stress on any joints. just a lot of blood flow and some good stretching for my low back.  Mission accomplished.  I should be ready to hit it hard in a new cycle next week.